Digital television : satellite, cable, terrestrial, IPTV, mobile TV in the DVB framework / Hervé Benoit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Color television: a review of current standards -- 1.1 Monochrome TV basics -- 1.2 Black and white compatible color systems -- Chapter 2. Digitization of video signals -- 2.1 Why digitize video signals? -- 2.2 Digitization formats -- 2.3 Transport problems -- Chapter 3. Source coding: compression of video and audio signals -- 3.1 Some general data compression principles -- 3.2 Compression applied to images: the discrete cosine transform (DCT) -- 3.3 Compression of fixed pictures -- 3.4 Compression of moving pictures (MPEG) -- 3.5 Compression of audio signals -- Chapter 4. Source multiplexing -- 4.1 Organization of the MPEG-1 multiplex: system layer -- 4.2 Organization of the MPEG-2 multiplex: program and transport streams -- Chapter 5. Scrambling and conditional access -- 5.1 Principles of the scrambling system in the DVB standard -- 5.2 Conditional access mechanisms -- 5.3 Main conditional access systems -- Chapter 6. Channel coding (forward error correction) -- 6.1 Energy dispersal (randomizing) -- 6.2 Reed-Solomon coding (outer coding) -- 6.3 Forney convolutional interleaving (temporal spreading of errors) -- 6.4 Convolutional coding (inner coding) -- Chapter 7. Modulation by digital signals -- 7.1 General discussion on the modulation of a carrier by digital signals -- 7.2 Quadrature modulations -- 7.3 Modulation characteristics for cable and satellite digital TV broadcasting (DVB-C and DVB-S) -- 7.4 OFDM modulation for terrestrial digital TV (DVB-T) -- 7.5 Summary of DVB transmission characteristics (cable, satellite, terrestrial) -- Chapter 8. Reception of digital TV signals -- 8.1 Global view of the transmission/reception process -- 8.2 Composition of the integrated receiver decoder (IRD) -- Chapter 9. Middleware and interoperability aspects -- 9.1 Main proprietary middlewares used in Europe -- 9.2 The open European middlewares -- Chapter 10. Evolution: state of the art and perspectives -- 10.1 Digital terrestrial television -- 10.2 Evolution of the set-top box -- 10.3 New architectures -- 10.4 High-Definition Television (HDTV) -- 10.5 Digital TV over IP -- 10.6 Digital terrestrial television for mobiles -- Appendix A: Error detection and correction in digital transmissions -- A1.1 An error detecting code: the parity bit -- A1.2 Block error correction codes -- A1.3 Convolutional coding -- Appendix B: Spectral efficiency of cable and satellite transmissions with DVB parameters -- Appendix C: The main other digital TV systems -- C1.1 The DSS system (satellite, the United States) -- C2.1 The ATSC system (terrestrial, the United States) -- C3.1 The ISDB-T system (terrestrial, Japan) -- Appendix D: The IEEE1394 high speed serial AV interconnection bus -- Appendix E: The DiSEqC bus for antenna system control -- E1.1 The DiSEqC levels -- E2.1 DiSEqC basic principles -- E3.1 Different fields of the DiSEqC message -- Appendi.

"Digital Television is as an authoritative and complete overview that describes the technology of digital television broadcasting. It gives you a thorough technical description of the underlying principles of the DVB standard and the various steps of signal processing. Also included is a complete technical glossary of terms, abbreviations, and expressions that gives you quick reference."--Jacket.